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Sightseeing

Keeney Pass Interpretive Site

A short hiking route on a preserved stretch of the Oregon Trail, with visible wagon ruts and interpretive exhibits.

Vale, OR

About Keeney Pass Interpretive Site

Keeney Pass sits south of Vale, Oregon, and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as an interpretive site. A roughly two-thirds-mile round-trip hike follows part of the original Oregon Trail, where wagon ruts remain visible near an interpretive shelter. Wayside exhibits describe the overland emigrant experience and the Native peoples of the area. The pass is named for Jonathan Keeney, a pioneer who arrived in the West as a young man and later worked as a trapper and trader. Visitors are asked to keep to the marked path so the ruts are not damaged.

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